A good quote:
old-style Legion continuity (& cast size) were, yes, a mess--not quite of Hawkman/Phoenix proportions, but very hard to keep track of what was what without a scorecard.
Yes, it was hard to keep track of what was going on without a scorecard (or a Mission Monitor Board), but a dedicated fan could. Heck, Paul Levitz is on record that he had to have a notebook explaining where everyone was when he wrote the darn thing! It took the original Crisis to totally muck up a lot of DC's continuity, but I like the comment that the Legion's rewritten history was not of Hawkmanesque proportions - and he's only one person.
I have to say that I don't really understand the comments you hear about how difficult the Legion was/is to get into. I never had any trouble and I was a just a wide-eyed teenager for most of Levitz's LSH run. Never needed a scorecard or anything like that. I can't even fathom why adults would have been confused.
ReplyDeleteI never had any trouble with the DC multiverse, either, which is another complaint I've never understood. Were both of these things really that hard? Was I just some kind of super-genius of Coluan proportions and didn't even know it? And to think of all that wasted potential...